Gaius Publius: A Corporate Convention: “Comcast Presents … The Democratic Party. Welcome to Philadelphia.”
The Democratic party convention will put its big-money soul on tawdry display.
Read more...Category Archives: The destruction of the middle class
The Minimum Wage Increases = Job Loss Myth
Repeat after me: study after study shows that minimum wages increases don’t lead to job losses.
Read more...Our Awful Elites Gutted America. Now They Dare Ring Alarms About Trump, Sanders—And Cast Themselves as Saviors
An awesome rant on the elite hyperventilating about Trump. He’s not something new, he’s simply the end-game of policies they knowingly set in motion.
Read more...Naked Capitalism’s Diptherio Discusses Flaws in Unemployment Reporting
Lies, damned lies, and statistics, unemployment report style.
Read more...TTIP: We Were Right All Along
The European Commission’s claim that the TTIP is aimed at ‘help[ing] people and businesses large and small” is shown to be a flagrant falsehood.
Read more...“John Doe’s Manifesto”: Panama Papers Source Blasts Lack of Media Interest, Calls for Prosecutions, Whistleblower Protection
Martha r flagged a new story at Suddeusche Zeitung from “John Doe,” the source for the Mossack Fonseca revelations, on what he intended to accomplish and what he feels needs to be done. I’m posting on his manifesto to encourage you to read it in full and circulate it. The whistleblower, John Doe, states his […]
Read more...Nomi Prins: Gimme Shelter (From the Tax Man), Disappearing Money and Opportunistic Candidate
It should come as no surprise that none of the mainstream Presidential candidates stack up well on the issues of tax avoidance and evasion.
Read more...“Free Trade” in Trouble in the United States
“Free trade” policies, in a world of substantially liberalized trade, no longer elicit knee-jerk support. About time.
Read more...Inequality Kills: Top 1% Lives 15 Years Longer Than the Poorest
Inequality kills, as the death gap between the richest and poorest rises to 15 years in the US.
Read more...Randy Wray: Progressives Don’t Let Friends Vote Neocon
If you take a hard look at Clinton’s neocon policies, it’s far from obvious that she’s a less dangerous Presidential pick than Trump.
Read more...A Simple “Trade” Solution to Boost Workers Across the Planet
There’s a progressive way to approach global trade that can help workers abroad and at home at the same time.
Read more...The Unfairness of Housing Purchases Through Time
Housing has clearly become less affordable over time. What to do about it?
Read more...Will Clinton Attempt to Bring Sanders Supporters into the Democratic Fold?
“Sanders will be ignored and shunned.” Will be? This has been the game from the outset.
Read more...Michael Hudson: The Wall Street Economy is Draining the Real Economy
How Wall Street is interjecting itself into the economy so that more and more is diverted to pay interest, insurance and rent.
Read more...Star Trek or The Matrix? Varoufakis’s Challenge to Neoliberalism
Varoufakis gave a wide-ranging talk on the considerable conflict between neoliberalism and democracy, and why democratic rule produces better results.
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